Tag: Oppenheimer
Celebrating the first Jewish Superman
I am not a comic book fan. I am not a superhero fan. I think comic book films are slowly demolishing whatever remains of American cinema. But, if I may be slightly hypocritical, I...
‘Oppenheimer’ and the lesson of brainy Jews
Finally, a movie about two Jews facing off in a war of ambitions, petty rivalries and contrasting moral absolutes—with actual wars in the background! (“Schindler’s List,” after all, is a film about two Nazis.)
Christopher...
Nuclear story ‘not over,’ says author of book behind ‘Oppenheimer’ film
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” now in theaters, explores the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer—the so-called “father” of the atomic bomb and one of history’s most famous and controversial Jews.
One of the authors of the...